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view of baptismal dish

Scene Description: Source caption: "Taufschale (um 1500) aus Berlin-Stralau, jetzt im Märkischen Museum" [NB: the donation inscription gives the date 1646, but the date of the object may indeed be earlier]

Image Source: digital photograph 2 October 2022 by Tiefentaler [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Taufschale_Stralau.jpg] [accessed 2 February 2024]

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view of church exterior - northeast view

Scene Description: Source caption: "Berlin-Friedrichshain, Stralau, Halbinsel Stralau, Tunnelstraße; Dorfkirche"

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 25 February 2012 by Angela M. Arnold [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Alt-Stralau_Dorfkirche_Friedrichshain_AMA_fec_(91).JPG] [accessed 2 February 2024]

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view of church exterior - southwest view

Scene Description: Source caption: "Kirche in Berlin-Stralau"

Image Source: digital photograph 24 February 2005 by Achim Raschka [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Stralau_Kirche.jpg] [accessed 2 February 2024]

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view of church exterior in context - southwest view

Scene Description: Source caption: "Die Dorfkirche Stralau vom gegenüberliegenden Ufer aus gesehen."

Image Source: digital photograph 13 February 2016 by Ansgar Koreng [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Dorfkirche_Stralau,_Berlin-Friedrichshain,_160213,_ako_(1).jpg] [accessed 2 February 2024]

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view of church interior - looking east

Scene Description: Source caption: "Berlin-Stralau, Dorfkirche"

Image Source: digital photograph 13 November 2022 by Keulenberger [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Berlin_Stralau_Kirche.jpg] [accessed 2 February 2024]

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view of font - west side

Image Source: digital photograph in Förderkreis Alte Kirchen Berlin-Brandenburg e.V. [https://www.altekirchen.de/offene-kirchen/kirchen/dorfkirche-stralau-stralau] [accessed 2 February 2024]

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view of font in context - southwest side

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 13 November 2022 by Keulenberger [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Berlin_Stralau_Kirche.jpg] [accessed 2 February 2024]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 25301STR

Museum and Inventory Number: for a time at the Märkisches Museum, Berlin

Church/Chapel: Evangelische Dorfkirche Stralau

Church Location: Tunnelstraße 5, Stralau, 10245 Berlin, Germany

Country Name: Germany

Location: Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg, Berlin

Directions to Site: Located on the little peninsula of the Spree river, just E of the Bd96a, 8-9 km ESE of Berlin city centre

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the chancel, N side

Date: n.d.

Century and Period: 15th century, Late Gothic

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are gratefult to Pol Herman for bringing this font to our attention and for his help in documenting it

Church Notes: cemetery of 1412; church built 1459-1464 in the cemetery probably replaced an earlier one on another site closer to the town; damaged in Thirty Years' War; restored/re-built 17th-18thC, and again in the 20thC; renovated 2012-2014

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The entry for this church in the German Wikipedia [https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorfkirche_Stralau] [accessed 2 February 2024] mentions a baptismal font made of limestone in the 15th century, or perhaps earlier, that was brought back into the church from the Märkischen Museum; the font consists of a cup-shaped basin raised on a squat base. Two baptismal dishes associated with this font are noted in the same source: one is inscribed with the donor's name, Elizabeth Kubitzen, widow of Knollin, and dated 29 August 1710, and is decorated with the Annunciation to Mary; it is located in the Märkischen Museum ["Aus dem Märkischen Museum wurde die spätgotische achteckige Kalksteintaufe in Pokalform zurückgeholt. Sie steht auf einem gedrungenen Fuß und ist mit Kerbschnittornamenten verziert. Experten datierten die Fünte auf das 15. Jahrhundert, möglicherweise auch früher. Darauf befindet sich eine barocke Taufschale aus Messing, auf der der Sündenfall sowie die verschlossenen Pforten des Neuen Jerusalems dargestellt sind. Die Inschrift lautet: FRAU ELISABETH KUBITZEN VERWITTIBTE KNOLLIN VEREHRET HIESIGER KIRCHEN DIES BECKEN ZUM STETEN ANDENCKEN ANNO 1710 DEN 29 AUGUSTI. Sie ist im Jahr 2018 nicht ausgestellt, sondern befindet sich in einem Tresor, nachdem das Duplikat im Jahr 1993 bei Dreharbeiten gestohlen wurde. Eine weitere Taufschale aus Stralau, die Verkündigung an Maria darstellend, befindet sich in der Sammlung des Märkischen Museums." The second baptismal dish [cf. ImagesArea] is decorated with the Annunciation to Mary and bears two inscriptions; the one round the centre scene in Gothic lettering probably part of the original work by the craftsman who made it; the second inscription was added on the oyer 'lip' of the dish and bears the date and names of the donors: 1646 and PETER SCVULTZE VND SEINE HAVSFRAV [...]; it is reported in the collections of the Märkischen Museum; one source gives the date of the dish as "um 1500".

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.4911, 13.4792

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 29′ 27.96″ N, 13° 28′ 45.12″ E

UTM: 33U 396746 5816749

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, limestone

Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal